More conservative offseason with an interesting swap

Adding the second in the ghost trade might be a bit too much but I’d like to hear other caps fans and some flyers fans chime in on it.

I'm kind of OK with the PHL trade here. I think if WSH wants to move on from Dillon this might be a path forward.
I also doubt SEA takes Schultz. I've seen enough of him to know he's that bad. Next to Jack Johnson he was the penguins worst defenseman.
I can't see how SEA would take him here. I think they take Vanecek or TVR if DIllon isn't available.

Um, you're wrong on the whole Ghost thing (waivers/ahl) and kind of about your analysis on the Flyers woes, but can;t really be bothered to explain what happened and why.... suffice to say that Flyers have too many LD and too many puck rushers and might do that deal, but not by adding a high 2nd.

Caps probably have to add a pick for Seattle to take schultz, there are too many other good options for Seattle. Otherwise, I love the moves made here.

By a lot of time in the AHL do you mean a 2 game conditioning stint when he was recovering from knee surgery? If so, then absolute loads. I'd rather have Ghost than Dillon 7 days a week. Ghost is younger, shorter contract length, and the difference in $ is negligible.

Dillon is a candidate to come back down to earth; 103+ PDO is not sustainable unless you have MVP-era Hasek in net that somehow I missed (and I'm certain we don't). The premise is that Dillon will step in to be a top-pairing right-handed defenseman to stabilize our d-corps... which is just wrong. See an excerpt from RMNB opining:

"Brenden Dillon appears to be a passenger. Of the top-ten Washington defensive pairings by ice time, when you rank them by shot-attempt percentage, Dillon’s in last (with TVR), 8th (with Carlson), and 7th (with Schultz). If anyone deserves a night off, it’s not 43-year-old Zdeno Chara; it’s Dillon. I am a bit lost as to what he brings to the table right now. Especially when you consider who’s waiting in the wings."